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Cartesian Certainty And The Infinity Of The Will, Joseph K. Cosgrove
Cartesian Certainty And The Infinity Of The Will, Joseph K. Cosgrove
Philosophy Faculty Publications
This paper interprets Descartes' conception of "certainty" as most fundamentally a function of the human will, controlling the cognitive encounter with the world.
Practicing Practicing, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Practicing Practicing, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Philosophy Faculty Publications
"There is something ludicrous in philosophical discourse," Michel Foucault writes, "when it tries, from the outside, to dictate to others, to tell them where their truth is and how to find it... " (Foucault 1985, 9). In our age of moral relativism and multiculturalism, it is easy to hear in this sentence a simple condemnation of intellectuals who pose as authorities on questions of belief, and it is all too easy to agree; yes, of course, we ought not tell other people what to think. But given the issues, directions, and investments of Foucault's work, especially in The Use of …